Loch Ness Envioromental DNA Research concludes Monster is a Giant Eel

The results of the study are finally out. According to the DNA research, the monster is mostly likely a giant eel.

The Loch Ness monster is no monster, but if it is any consolation it may be a big eel.

On Thursday, an international group of scientists that compiled the genetic profiles of living creatures in Scotland’s mysterious Loch Ness said
they had found no evidence that the fabled eponymous creature was lurking in the lake.

“We have no definitive evidence of a monster,” said Professor Neil Gemmell of the University of Otago, New Zealand, who led the study.

The Loch Ness monster, or Nessie for short, is one of Scotland’s most enduring tales. Alleged sightings have given birth to stories of a prehistoric
creature living in the loch.

The team of researchers led by Gemmell analyzed the environmental DNA — or genetic material shed by all life in Loch Ness — from around 250
samples of water collected from the lake last year, and compared it to large databases of genetic sequences from known species.The scientists did not
find evidence of DNA sequences similar to those predicted to come from a large extinct marine reptile.

Except sturgeon have been caught in Lochness, and this test showed no sturgeon. So, I'm thinking there still could potentially be a lochness monster
since they didn't find any prehistoric dna for a plesiosaur.

That early fake black and white photo of a long necked plant eating dinosaur impacted our minds before the advent of the internet, I remember it
clearly from when I was young and ignorant to everything I know now.

I don't see the main issue with its existence talked about much or at all; reproduction. If they are so scarce that no trace of them can ever be
found, not a single irrefutable video or picture from the plethora of researchers and tourists from decades, if it exists, how does it find mates,
have babies?

There was only one left and the photo was real? Highly unlikely but theoretically possible much like winning the mega millions jackpot. Those are the
kind of odds we're dealing with here.

I used to fish off a pier in Cairn Ryan (SW scotland), i can confirm conger eel to 40lb by just dropping your baited hook over the edge of the pier,
they are ferocious. Ive been told they get em to 70-80lb with a good bait and patience, i wouldnt doubt it either.

Interesting. I did some searches on google. Looks like the largest eels on record aren’t much more than 10 feet long.

I see from the article, that they don’t know how big it was from DNA sequencing.

Additionally, they got the DNA samples from the water? I don’t see how they could define this as a ‘giant eel’ from water samples.

I’m not saying I believe in the Loch Ness Monster. This article just seems very vague.

I remember reading a story when I was a kid in the 1960s about a scientist that was fishing for specimens off the coast of Chile. He caught a larval
eel that was several feet long. He surmised that if it had grown to adulthood, it would have been at least 50 feet long.

I did some searching and found a similar story, but the scientist was fishing off the coast of South Africa: Mysterious Universe

The creature had resembled a fish somewhat, but had a thin, translucent body about six feet in length. Bruun recognized the creature to be a
leptocephalus, that is, the larva of some sort of eel. It isn’t uncommon for certain eels to grow to sizes larger than six feet in length; however,
their larvae are proportionately much smaller, typically only one-thirtieth the size of the mature adult. If the specimen Bruun managed to capture was
only the animal’s larval form, then how big would the adult have to be?

Again cbs told us the truth. just saying with all that fakadaka news , what's the value of such a statement. Loch Ness was a hoax tomorrow , and a
dinosaur yesterday. Big Eel , sturgeon. Whatever. Anderson Cooper knows for sure it's trumps fault.

The DNA guys are from New Zealand, but a group from the UK are in Ireland to find the legendary Horse Eel.

However, Richard said this new study is particularly important because the ‘monsters’ may just be a massive strain of eel. He said: “The
monsters may be a gigantic, mutant strain of the common eel. “The European eels live in freshwater but when it is ready to breed to swims out into
the Sargasso Sea. “The eels breed and die here and the young swim back the waters inhabited by their ancestors. “However there is a theory that
some eels never sexually develop. These eunuch eels as they are known, remain in freshwater and nobody knows just how long they live or how big they
get.

Visited Loch Ness in June and took tour by the boat there. Loch Ness is deep lake 230 meters deep and has more water in it than all the other lakes in
UK together.
On the tour there were on the screen thermal images of the beast which didn´t look like a eel. Scientist took dna samples 250 and when you think
about the depth of the lake and size of the lake 250 is nothing.

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